Sure Signs of Crazy

Name: Sure Signs of Crazy
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Karen Harrington
ISBN: 9781478900481

Author: Karen Harrington

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Published: 05/20/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A poignant and powerful coming of age story perfect for fans of Wonder and The Thing about Jellyfish

You've never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson. While most of her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch. She collects trouble words in her diary. Her best friend is a plant. And she's never known her mother, who left when Sarah was two.

Since then, Sarah and her dad have moved from one small Texas town to another, and not one has felt like home.

Everything changes when Sarah launches an investigation into her family's Big Secret. She makes unexpected new friends and has her first real crush, and instead of a "typical boring Sarah Nelson summer," this one might just turn out to be extraordinary.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alyson on December 22, 2020

Dear Sarah Nelson, I’m writing to tell you how much I enjoyed the story you share in your own words called Sure Signs of Crazy (by Karen Harrington, who helped you write it down). It makes me so sad that your mom tried to drown you when you were only two years old. How hard it must have been for you......more

Goodreads review by ✦BookishlyRichie✦ on June 13, 2017

2.5 STARS!! I was really excited to read this because it had been on my shelf for a whole year and MG contemporaries involving Mental Health are books you rarely see. But sadly this was one big borefest of a read and it's only 270 pages long. This takes place during a summer and nothing really happen......more

Goodreads review by 🥀 Rose 🥀 on March 29, 2015

I totally thought this was going to be emotionally riveting. A young girl is dealing with her life 10 years after her mother tried to drown her and her brother, succeeding in killing her twin brother, while she survived. As Sarah approaches age 12 and is growing into a young woman, she is faced with......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on September 14, 2013

Children's books have ventured into ground once held only by the occasional teen read. Poverty. Alcoholic parents. Dwarfism. Issues that were once taboo for younger, sensitive readers. I was one of those sensitive readers. I still am. I've had to put away a lot of books that are too difficult to read......more

Goodreads review by Pati on August 18, 2016

Sarah Nelson, que linda que eres, que dura es tu vida, y que ganas tienes de vivirla. Querido Atticus, es un libro narrado por ésta peculiar, encantadora, inteligente, e ingeniosa pre adolescente llamada Sarah. Ella es una niña que vive únicamente con su padre, que por desgracia vive emocionalmente......more

Quotes

* "Don't think this will be a hard sell to readers...for Harrington has created a protagonist who is, in her own way, as clear-eyed, tough-minded, and inspiring as any dystopian hero."—Booklist, starred review

"Sarah Nelson lives between a terrible tragedy in the past and a terrible fear about what might happen in the future. In that uncertainty, Sarah faces her life squarely, with a heroism that makes us cheer for humanity's courage, wit, and guts. She faces a divided friendship, the death of a neighbor, the loss of her first love, the near loss of her father, and, most poignantly, the knowledge that her lost mother will never be found--and yet hers is a compelling journey that takes us into that most fragile place: Hope. You will be glad you journeyed there with her."—Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor author of The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now

* "Sarah is an introspective protagonist whose narrative, interspersed with letters and word definitions, keeps readers absorbed...Secondary characters add interest and texture to this compelling novel."—SLJ, starred review

* "Readers intrigued by the premise of this moving story will sympathize with the plucky protagonist and rejoice in the way her summer works out."—Kirkus, starred review

* "[A] beautifully written story...This is the kind of book that stays with you."—Library Media Connection, starred review

"An engaging, warm-hearted story. Beautifully written. Harrington creates a fearless and resilient heroine."—Jewell Parker Rhodes, Coretta Scott King Honor author of Ninth Ward and Sugar

"Sure Signs of Crazy is knowing, hilarious, and tender. Karen Harrington's character portrait of Sarah Nelson is one for the ages."—Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and My Reading Life

"Extraordinary heart."—The Horn Book